Gladstone Book Prize

The Gladstone Book Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society to debut authors for a history book published in Britain on any topic which is not primarily British history. The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone's death.

List of winners

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1997 – Stuart Clark, Thinking With Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
1998 – Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956
1999 – Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War,
2000 – Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
2001 – Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300
2002
*David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870
*Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV
2003
*Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India
*Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830
2004 – Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
2005 – Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850
2006 – James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700
2007 – Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan
2008 – Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture
2009 – Alice Rio, Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000
2010 – Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776
2011 – Wendy Ugolini, Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II,
2012 – Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn,
2013 – Sean A. Eddie, Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848
2015
*Andrew Arsan, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa
*Lucie Ryzova, The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt
2016 – Emma Hunter, Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania
2017 – Claire Eldridge, From Empire to Exile: History and Memory Within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012
2018 – Matthew S. Champion, The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries
2019 – Duncan Hardy, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521
2020 – Caillan Davenport, A History of the Roman Equestrian Order
2021 – Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890.
2023 - Jennifer Keating, On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia
2024 - Somak Biswas, Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
2025 - Jules Skotnes-Brown, ''Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948''